German Measles (Rubella) Epidemic and Research Before Roe

In this lecture, Dr. Reagan will discuss how national anxiety about birth defects generated new public discussion about abortion law reform in the early 1960s. She will also examine how women’s experiences of pregnancy influenced vaccine development, comparing past epidemics to the current Coronavirus epidemic.

April 7, 2022  •  Noon – 1:00 p.m.  •  via Zoom

Presented by:
Leslie J. Reagan, Ph.D.
Dr. Reagan is the author of When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, and Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America, which investigates the German measles (rubella) epidemic of the early 1960s and the role it played in early abortion law reform. Professor Reagan is also co-editor of Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Bodies, and Health in American Film and Television, which includes Reagan’s chapter on Breast Cancer Self-Examination Films.

Recent scholarly publications include “Traveling for Abortion: An International History,” Journal of Modern European History, and “‘My daughter was genetically drafted with me’: US-Vietnam War Veterans, Disabilities and Gender,” Gender and History.

She appears frequently on National Public Radio and various podcasts, including the Ezra Klein Show, and has written for the Washington Post, Slate, Ms. Magazine and other local and national publications.

This Department of Humanities Hershey Lecture in Medical History is being held in conjunction with the Harrell Health Sciences Library NLM virtual exhibit,
Rashes to Research: Scientists and Parents Confront the 1964 Rubella Pandemic.
This online exhibit and Book Display can be found at:
harrelllibcal.library.psu.edu/event/9027298

For more information email Lori Ricard at: lricard@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

CE Credits are available for Penn State Health and College of Medicine employees: Penn State College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Penn State College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Please join the Department of Humanities and the Harrell Health Sciences Library at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa., to discuss selected books by contemporary writers of color in the U.S. We will meet via Zoom Oct. 25 and in person Nov 1, 2023 in Room C1800 at 12 noon – 1:00 p.m. to discuss the book, Carlisle Indian Industrial School:
Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations. Edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose. This collection interweaves the voices of students’ descendants, poets, and activists with cutting edge research by Native and non-Native scholars to reveal the complex history and enduring legacies of the school that spearheaded the federal campaign for Indian assimilation.

The goal of this monthly discussion is to strengthen our community ties and expand our understanding of each other through reading. Feel free to join if you have read all, part or none of the book. Registration is required to receive the link to attend the Zoom meeting. For registered attendees, meeting information will be sent by email the day before the event.

These events are free and open to all Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health faculty, staff, students, trainees and community members.

For more information and to register to attend individual sessions, please visit the Penn State College of Medicine’s Connecting Through Literature Book Club webpage.
You may also email Eliza Donne at edonne@pennstatehealth.psu.edu for more information.

 

This lecture was recorded and can be viewed here.

The COVID 19 pandemic has provided a stress test for the American healthcare system. In Rethinking Care, WPSU’s HumIn Focus April 2021 episode, healthcare is viewed through the lens of the humanities, focusing on ways to repair some of the inequities of the system, and provide better care for healthcare workers and patients alike.

Join us as we watch Rethinking Care: Health Humanities and the Pandemic and then have a conversation with Dr. Christman and other featured Humanities faculty.  This event is free and open to the public.

MODERATED BY:
John Christman, PhD

Professor of Philosophy, Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Director, Penn State Humanities Institute
Pennsylvania State University

 

Via Zoom  •  Password: 872568

For more information email Lori Ricard at: lricard@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

This event is free and open to the public.

Join Viral Imaginations: COVID-19 for an evening of guided ekphrastic art making!

Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. EDT. 

We’ll kick off the evening with a presentation on ekphrastic art and the relationship between the Viral Imaginations: COVID-19 Project and bioethics. During this workshop, you’ll select a piece of art or literature from the Viral Imaginations gallery and make your own creative reflection. Before we finish up, participants will have the opportunity to share their creation with the rest of the group along with a brief explanation. This will be a great chance for you to appreciate art with community members and reflect on diverse experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

This event is free but you will need to register to attend.

For more information email:  viralimaginations@psu.edu

The Viral Imaginations: COVID-19 project is an interdisciplinary initiative focused on collecting, displaying, and archiving Pennsylvanians’ first-person, imaginative and artistic expressions made in response to their lived experience of the coronavirus pandemic.